All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce ...

Although the leaked opinion also debunked equal protection as a basis for protecting abortions, that approach has a much stronger basis for protecting the other rights that may also come under attack.

In 2005, the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment jurisprudence seemed at equipoise. The equal protection clause permitted the use ...

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC (2023) closed the Grutter chapter. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a 6-3 majority, held that Harvard's and UNC's admissions programs couldn't be ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...

Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological ...

The Supreme Court’s decision today that the race-conscious admissions programs as practiced at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard—the nation’s oldest public and private ...

Peltier, a student’s parent, along with two other parents, filed suit alleging violations of the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX. The plaintiffs alleged that requiring female students to wear ...